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Derksen, Daniel G.; Giroux, Megan E.; Newman, Eryn J.; Bernstein, Daniel M. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
When semantically-related photos appear with true-or-false trivia claims, people more often rate the claims as true compared to when photos are absent--"truthiness." This occurs even when the photos lack information useful for assessing veracity. We tested whether truthiness changed in magnitude as a function of participants' age in a…
Descriptors: Credibility, Semantics, Evaluative Thinking, Age Groups
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Bernstein, Daniel M.; Erdfelder, Edgar; Meltzoff, Andrew N.; Peria, William; Loftus, Geoffrey R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Upon learning the outcome to a problem, people tend to believe that they knew it all along ("hindsight bias"). Here, we report the first study to trace the development of hindsight bias across the life span. One hundred ninety-four participants aged 3 to 95 years completed 3 tasks designed to measure visual and verbal hindsight bias. All age…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Perspective Taking, Problem Solving, Memory